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The Irritating Gentleman (part two)
‘Wow,’ Martin got out and looked around at the garden which was very overgrown. Everything was unnervingly tall; white shasta daisies reaching up to...
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The Irritating Gentleman (part one)
‘You go first. I can see you’re eager..’ Hayley glanced at the irritating gentlemen as she glided past him, a little too close for her liking within...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 30
Martha was on her way to the kitchen with the two cups of tea to try to talk sense to Miriam but she stopped before she reached that room, feeling a...
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3 oz of Insanity
Mine weighs 3 oz +/-. I'm sure it weighs heavier on us all.
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No Johnny, No! ( 2 of 2)
We kept up our meets every few months, then sometime in 2004, I met him in a bar in Fenchurch Street. He didn’t look good. He’d lost weight, which...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (3)
Part two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-2 Marie’s mother was standing at the front door as the car pulled up...
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Arjun! Stay blessed
A rjun! Stay blessed Happy Birthday is on your way today being celebrated with pomp and gay Hey Arjun our dear grandson your parents’ uncles ' and...
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A Pure Embrace
A Pure Embrace This day began with the choice of self-empathy. Regardless of the external or internal distraction. As the sun set, silent whispers of...
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Richard Tomey
Pleasure and pain became polarizing points of light in Richard Tomey’s darkness. With nothing else to do, he focused upon them, concentrating his...
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Average Guy
His poetry pamphlet having not been the success he had thought it would be, Gary binned the lot of them, in the same way as many folks in his...
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FACE.
Over the two weeks, I didn’t watch any of the tennis. A yearly sport that I grew up watching and enjoyed most of my life, now it seemed all the...
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No Johnny, No! ( 1 of 2)
I met Johnny in 1997. He was one of those guys that you instantly take a liking to. We sat opposite each other at the Courier company. He worked on...
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Through the fogged lens
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A Couple, unique
A Couple, unique Hey Pranati and Pramod emissaries from His abode! United in heaven, sent to earth as of the ideal couple there, there was a dearth...
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The Clockwork Mouse: Part Two
'We are happy here, Sarah, aren't we, just the two of us. I don't know what I'd do without you.' 'Yes, Mum, you mustn't worry about anything.' No,...
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The Clockwork Mouse: Part One
Sarah Mountford was thirty today. What should she do for her birthday? Her mother Anne had suggested she spend it with her. They could maybe go out...
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Bastille Day, Barbecue Smoke, and the Weight of History
It’s Bastille Day. All across France, sausages sizzle on supermarket grills, fireworks crack like toy guns in the evening sky, and municipal...
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"Art of Trouble"
Trouble. Why does it follow me like I’m the opposing magnet to its negative force and if I am the positive force, why should it follow me at all? A...
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Froggy Came A-Courting (And So Did I)
There’s an old English folk song I half-remember from childhood — “A Froggy Went A-Courting.” It drifts in with its lilting tune and strange courtly...
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The 12th Anniversary Of Dad's Death
When Dad got Leukemia, he put up a fight. He took chemo but lost his battle 12 years ago tonight. After months of taking chemotherapy, he died. He...
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